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Pagina 43
... nature , which is incapable of fault- less productions . When an excellent Drama appears in publick , and by its intrinsick worth attracts a general applause , he is not stung with envy and spleen ; nor does he express a savage nature ...
... nature , which is incapable of fault- less productions . When an excellent Drama appears in publick , and by its intrinsick worth attracts a general applause , he is not stung with envy and spleen ; nor does he express a savage nature ...
Pagina 293
... nature ; and any attention to that coalition of in- terests which makes the happiness of a country , is possible only to those whom enquiry and reflection have enabled to comprehend it . This doctrine is in itself pernicious as well as ...
... nature ; and any attention to that coalition of in- terests which makes the happiness of a country , is possible only to those whom enquiry and reflection have enabled to comprehend it . This doctrine is in itself pernicious as well as ...
Pagina 376
... Nature and on Life , with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes , in every thing presented to its view , whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained , and with a mind that at once ...
... Nature and on Life , with the eye which Nature bestows only on a poet ; the eye that distinguishes , in every thing presented to its view , whatever there is on which imagination can delight to be detained , and with a mind that at once ...
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